As a Captain, he finds himself the senior ranking Astartes of his Chapter, and must rally them to hold through the night of impossible odds on their planet of Eidolica. Maximus Thane - a Space Marine of the Fists Exemplar (a Second Founding Chapter). It also involves a nasty little mantra known as the Bystander Paradox, which is a clinic in terrifyingly callous logic. Well, it goes deeper than that, of course. Urquidex - an Adeptus Mechanicus magos attached to a survey team gathering information on this new ork technology. She begins the story on an escort detail trying to extract the planetary governor amidst the unfolding chaos. Lux Allegra - an Imperial Guard commander on the aquatic hive world of Undine. Some we are already familiar with (Vangorich, Wienand, and other players on Terra). Sanders seems to have some fun here assigning clever names to worlds, and describing them fully in a sentence or two, before snuffing them out entirely.įrom there, he splits his book between accounts of different characters, playing their parts in this grand tragedy. Where I Am Slaughter focused its narrative primarily between Terra and Ardamantua (site of the utter decimation of the Imperial Fists), Predator, Prey opens with a chapter-long battle report of planets, systems, and industrial sites that were obliterated by the appearance of the attack moon of the Beast. All the initial framework was laid out in the first volume, would the second be simply a vessel to carry those storylines along until the next installment? Or would Sanders find a way to improve, intensify, and introduce more angles? Luckily, the answer is the latter, and the makes Predator, Prey a superior book to I Am Slaughter.Īs far as continuations go, Sanders elaborates more on the initial appearance and immediate effect of the orks than on the progression of their hellish crusade. To me, he is a defter wordsmith, and his masterful usage of figurative language is the best of all the authors in the Library.īut then, other concerns arise. I was personally looking forward to Sanders' entry more. So, although I can understand the wide excitement over Abnett's entry. This is something forever in BL's credit. I'm guessing reaction is going to be mixed here the BL audience is a varied group, and they have a crop of authors with diverse writing styles to match. For Volume 2, they enlisted the authorial skills of another prose powerhouse in their vast stable, Rob Sanders. That might sound a tad negative perhaps I should say that it was Very Good, and not at all bad. Last month, The Black Library kicked off their ambitious new series 'The Beast Arises' with the solid, but not stellar I Am Slaughter, by fan favorite Dan Abnett. Book Two in The Black Library's 'The Beast Arises' series, originally published January, 2016.
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